VISITING GERMANY – CULTURE: BERLIN – Berlinale 2014: Record Attendance and a Splendid Close – The Awards of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival

Today, on Saturday 15, 2014, the 64th Berlin International Film Festival is drawing to a splendid close with the Award Ceremony. At 7.00 pm, the winners of the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, the Bears for short films and the Best First Feature Award will be presented at the final gala in the Berlinale Palast. Following the ceremony, the winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film will be shown as closing film.

Festival Director Dieter Kosslick and the International Jury under James Schamus will present the awards. Anke Engelke will again host the gala, which will be broadcast live on 3sat at 7.00 pm.

The award ceremony can also be watched on www.berlinale.de via live stream.

Some 1600 guests are expected to attend the Award Ceremony. Besides the members of the International Jury – James Schamus, Barbara Broccoli, Trine Dyrholm, Mitra Farahani, Greta Gerwig, Michel Gondry, Tony Leung and Christoph Waltz – they will include: Meret Becker, David Bennent, Christian Berkel, Alexander Beyer, Hans-Christoph Blumenberg, Christopher Buchholz, Denis Dercourt, Maria Dragus, Hannelore Elsner, Martina Gedeck, Michael Gwisdek, Klaus Hoffmann, Marc Hosemann, Burghart Klaußner, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Lisa Martinek, Jacob Matschenz, Maxim Mehmet, Nazif Mujic, Jana Pallaske, Jeanine Meerapfel, Helke Misselwitz, Franziska Petri, Christian Petzold, Moritz Rinke, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Andrea Sawatzki, Frieder Schlaich, Volker Schlöndorff, Maria Schrader, Katharina Schüttler, Jasmila Žbanić, among others.

A number of German politicians have also announced their attendance, including: Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit; Governing Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë; the vice presidents of the German Bundestag Edelgard Bulmahn and Claudia Roth; Austrian Chancellery Minister for Media and Cultural Affairs Josef Ostermayer; President of the Berlin House of Representatives Ralf Wieland; Their Excellencies the Ambassadors of Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, Italy, the People’s Republic of China, Spain and Uruguay; as well as several members of the German federal government and the Berlin Senate.

Among the countless stars who walked the Red Carpet during the Berlinale were: Wes Anderson, Patricia Arquette, Bob Balaban, Christian Bale, Karl Baumgartner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hugh Bonneville, Pierce Brosnan, Yvonne Catterfeld, Nick Cave, George Clooney, Toni Collette, Jennifer Connelly, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Dujardin, America Ferrera, Ralph Fiennes, Christophe Gans, Bruno Ganz, Brendan Gleeson, Jeff Goldblum, John Goodman, Benjamin Heisenberg, Hannah Herzsprung, Nick Hornby, Diane Kruger, Shia LaBeouf, Mélanie Laurent, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, Andie MacDowell, Viggo Mortensen, Cillian Murphy, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Aaron Paul, Michael Peña, Alain Resnais, Tony Revolori, Sam Riley, Saoirse Ronan, Martin Scorsese, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, Christian Slater, Patti Smith, Florian Stetter, Tilda Swinton, Uma Thurman, Lars von Trier, Jürgen Vogel, Hugo Weaving, Forest Whitaker and Yoji Yamada.

Attendance surged tremendously at this year’s Festival, surpassing even last year’s record: a total of 330,000 tickets were sold. Audiences and fans could also enjoy many events at the newly designed Audi Berlinale Lounge outside the Berlinale Palast: over 30 public events – such as Q&As with the teams of Competition films and discussions from other Berlinale sections – proved to be crowd pullers.

Provisions were also made for the physical well-being of the Festival’s visitors: for the first time, Street Food was offered in cooperation with Markthalle Neun at the heart of the Festival on Potsdamer Platz. The wide range of culinary dishes prepared at the six food trucks, which were stationed in the Joseph-von-Eichendorff-Gasse, was received with delight.

On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Berlinale Kinotag will give audiences a special treat: a number of the films presented in the different sections of the Festival will be screened again for the public at many of the Berlinale’s venues.

Press Office
February 15, 2014

Today, on Saturday February 15, at the award ceremony of the independent juries, the young French-German-Israeli jury will present the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”.

This year it goes to Ester Amrami’s film Anderswo (Anywhere Else).

The Award was initiated by the French-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlinale, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2004, and is endowed for the second time with € 5,000.

The Berlin International Film Festival and the French-German Youth Office (FGYO) gave young film-lovers the chance to award the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” for the eleventh time. The young jury – consisting of one Israeli, three German and three French film fans between the ages of 20 and 26 – picked the winner of the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”.

Under the direction of this year’s jury president, French director Denis Dercourt, the jurors watched the fourteen entries in the Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. From their young German-French-Israeli perspectives, they passionately discussed which film had impressed them most and finally agreed on their favourite.

Ester Amrami’s entry Anderswo (Anywhere Else) greatly touched the jury because of its sensitive and engaging language that transcends borders and the worlds between them, as well as its thoughtful and humorous take on life.

An honourable mention goes to Nicole Vögele’s film nebel (fog). The jury was enchanted by the poetic power of its images and the extraordinary sensory experience provided by them.

With the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”, the FGYO would like, on the one hand, to promote the exchange between German and French young people and, on the other hand, further the intercultural dialogue on cinema, especially on new German film.

In 2013, Anne Zohra Berrached’s film Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers) won the award. Previous “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective” winners have included Marten Persiel’s This Ain’t California, Dirk Lütter’s Die Ausbildung (The Education) or Bettina Blümner’s Prinzessinnenbad (Pool of Princesses). All these films went on to be well received in Germany. We wish the film Anderswo a similar success.

Further information can be found at www.dialogue-en-perspective.org and www.berlinale.de.

Press Office
February 15, 2014

Awards

Feb 15, 2014: The Awards of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival

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Source:  Berlinale 2014

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